Hi.
I guess I should start from the beginning. I lived on a farm and grew up with dogs my whole life. I love dogs and knew someday when I’m on my own I’ll have many dogs.
Well fast forward to my 24-25 yr old self. I am happy with a wonderful Man and we live together. We decided to get a dog and we did. It was a private adoption, but it ended horribly. The dog had major separation anxiety, major hip dysphasia, very dominant towards other dogs, and she had very bad stomach issues we couldn’t help her. We decided after 5 1/2 months to put her down. I still loved her even for all the issues and I’ve never felt so broken up about loosing a dog. She was my first dog and this owner gave us a dog with so many problems. After we put her down the next day I went to the animal shelter and wanted a dog so badly. I just couldnt stand it at all. My Man said no, no we aren’t getting a dog. Honestly I’ve been struggling with loneliness with it since. See, we will most likely moving within the next 6 or so months and we don’t know yet, so I get that having a dog with the mess to trying to move, sell the current house (we live in his dead mothers house), still go on a roadtrip and such that it wouldn’t be fair to get a dog at this point. But all I do is look on FB at rehoming sites, humane society websites, and Craigslist. Honestly, my man thinks I’m chronically lonely- idk maybe I am.
Then I came up with the idea to maybe help an owner once a week with dog sitting another’s dog. Which prompt this lady that was debating to regime her dog, she’s not in the ideal situation for her dog, but she wasn’t sure if she actually wanted to rehoming him. I took him on and he’s an amazing dog! He had some issues, but with getting exercise and being around others helped him a lot. He owner was always appreciative. This went on for maybe 2 months maybe more. I told her mid to early on as I got to know her dog that if she did make that decision that my boyfriend and I would be so happy to adopt him. She was still very indecisive if she would regime or not. But later on I found a craigslist ad that she posted after zip told her this. I confronted her about it and told me she forgot she made that and she made it on a whim, she’s been a sketchy person to deal with and just yesterday I told her I don’t feel comfortable with doing this anymore since she just seems to be lying and playing on my emotions while looking at other potential homes.
Anyways I’m back to square one without a dog. I just feel sad. I feel like if my man would say yes to getting a dog I could be happy again. But I get with our situation that it may not be best to get one now.
At the same time I dot the know if I want to go through the heartache of getting a dog and something good happening again. I feel I needed to vent about this and myself experiences have been bad.
All I can do is keep looking through rehoming pages everywhere and look at them, wishing I could have a dog. I should note my man had his and his mom’s dog die early 2018.
I don’t know what to do, he said as soon as we move we can get a dog because we plan on having a lot of property and such and to maybe get two dogs.
Maybe advice or just sympathy would be nice.
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